Empire of liberty : a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815.

With this book, Gordon S. Wood offers an account of the pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation. Integrating all aspects of life, from politics and law to the economy and culture, this volume covers the early American Republic from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812.